ArticleScientific reports2017
Neuroanatomical correlates of forgiving unintentional harms.
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- Automatic detection of moral information: evidence from visual mismatch response (vMMR).BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Network and state specificity in connectivity-based predictions of individual behavior.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- Network and State Specificity in Connectivity-Based Predictions of Individual Behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Reasoning supports forgiving accidental harms.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Distinct Components in the Right Extended Frontal Aslant Tract Mediate Language and Working Memory Performance: A Tractography-Informed VBM Study.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2020Article
- Cognitive-Emotional and Inhibitory Deficits as a Window to Moral Decision-Making Difficulties Related to Exposure to Violence.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Review
- Increased moral condemnation of accidental harm in institutionalized adolescents.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Brain Structural Bases of Tendency to Forgive: evidence from a young adults sample using voxel-based morphometry.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- The behavioral and neural basis of empathic blame.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Mature moral judgments rely on the consideration of a perpetrator's mental state as well as harmfulness of the outcomes produced. Prior work has focused primarily on the functional correlates of how intent information is neurally represented for moral judgments, but few studies have investigated whether individual differences in neuroanatomy can also explain variation in moral judgments. In the current study, we conducted voxel-based morphometry analyses to address this question. We found that local grey matter volume in the left anterior superior temporal sulcus, a region in the functionally defined theory of mind or mentalizing network, was associated with the degree to which participants relied on information about innocent intentions to forgive accidental harms. Our findings provide further support for the key role of mentalizing in the forgiveness of accidental harms and contribute preliminary evidence for the neuroanatomical basis of individual differences in moral judgments.
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